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An American Crime

The true story of a child's punishment that became a woman's crime.

7.3 / 10

97 minutes

2007-07-27

English

US

Actors :

Elliot Page, Catherine Keener, Hayley McFarland, Nick Searcy, Romy Rosemont, Ari Graynor, Scout Taylor-Compton, Tristan Jarred, Hannah Leigh, Bradley Whitford, James Franco, Scott Eastwood, Michael O'Keefe, Carlie Westerman, Michelle Benes

Description

The true story of suburban housewife Gertrude Baniszewski, who kept a teenage girl locked in the basement of her Indiana home during the 1960s.

Reviews

Andres Gomez

Andres Gomez

6/23/2021, 3:57:20 PM

Very good performances from Ellen Page and Catherine Keener for quite an empty movie. Could have been done much, much better with a proper direction and script.

HikariWS

HikariWS

6/23/2021, 5:03:33 PM

Nice point of view of the torturers. It'd be easy to just show them as evil demons having fun doing bad things. I liked how the script portrays what they might had thought, sometimes very subtle. As the guy who had a crush on her and was rejected while she was still free, and later marked her. Paula who was pregnant and projected all her issues on Sylvia and wanted her to be seen as a prosti...